Agriculture · Active
Specialty Crop Block Grant Program · USDA · Sparse NOFO · mid band
Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (CFDA 10.170) - federal assistance administered by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $100K–$2M
- Typical award range
- 1
- Indexed opportunities
- 1
- Open now
- USDA
- Administering agency
The verdict
According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, Specialty Crop Block Grant Program ranks #84 of 504, #3 of 51 within USDA, and #15 of 52 among Agriculture programs by listed funding ceiling. Across 504 active programs, 47.041 leads by opportunity count (319, funding-ceiling rank #249) ≠ 66.054 leads by funding ceiling ($7.0 billion, opportunity rank #326). CFDA 10.170 is an active Agriculture program with 1 indexed Grants.gov opportunity. Of the 20 most recent listings shown here, 1 is open for application.
- $100K–$2M
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- October 16
- next application deadline
- $23.3 million
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 10%
- of the catalog is Agriculture
Specialty Crop Block Grant Program · lower-band quiet listing (#368/502 by ceiling)
Specialty Crop Block Grant Program sits below most listed ceilings (27th percentile among 502 active programs), a floor-band Assistance Listing card, not a mega solicitation.
Specialty Crop Block Grant Program vs programs with listed funding ceilings
Where this CFDA's SAM.gov award ceiling sits among active Assistance Listings with a reported ceiling
$2,000,000 Top 73% higher than 27% of 502 programs
Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling
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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2026-04-13
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 10.170 · USDA VOL-SPARSE · #84/504
VOL-SPARSE · UPPER-Q · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-OPEN · CEIL-MILLION · ELIG-SLG · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-SPARSE 1 indexed
- UPPER-Q #84/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-OPEN 1 open of 20 listed
- CEIL-MILLION $100K–$2M
- ELIG-SLG State/local government
- BOOK-FULL 20 listed / 1 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 10.170
VOL-SPARSE · #84/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestSpecialty Crop Bloc… · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
Few announcements, mid-scale dollars
Mid-band ceiling ($100,000 to $2.0 million) with only 1 indexed Grants.gov rows for Specialty Crop Block Grant Program. Competitive traffic is light relative to the printed award size, so deadlines on the sparse NOFO list matter more than catalog rank.
Assistance Listing text · USDA
Block grants to states to enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops including fruits, vegetables, and tree nuts.
Public-sector applicant lane · USDA
SAM.gov lists only government/tribal applicants for Specialty Crop Block Grant Program. This is a public-sector Assistance Listing corridor, not a general nonprofit or small-business open call.
Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 10.170
100% of the 21 indexed listings under CFDA 10.170 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Specialty Crop Block Grant Program typically uses to move money. 5% of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $804.6 million across 15 listings (avg $53.6 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 1,105 across 21 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 10.170, not the 10 listings shown below; a listing missing a field is excluded from that field's total, not counted as zero.
Mostly archived listings · CFDA 10.170
Only 1 of 21 indexed listings under CFDA 10.170 are open (5%); the book is mostly archived. Reported award ceilings swing from $1.0 million to $23.3 million (23×); treat any single listing's ceiling as a local bound, not the program's typical award. 100% of listings carry the Agriculture (AG) funding-activity code.
- Open vs archived (indexed book)
- 1 open · 20 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $1.0 million (7 listings with a ceiling)
- Dominant Grants.gov funding-activity code
- Agriculture (AG)
Open counts use the same posted+close_date rule as the rest of PlainGrants; funding-activity codes are the Grants.gov category_of_funding field (first code when several are joined). Ceiling median is over positive reported ceilings only.
USDA · administering agency
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Farm, food, nutrition, rural development, and conservation programs for communities and businesses.
Grants.gov opportunities · CFDA 10.170 1 Open
Specialty Crop Multi-State Grant Program 2026
Specialty Crop Block Grant Program Farm Bill 2026
Specialty Crop Block Grant Program Farm Bill 2025
Specialty Crop Block Grant Program Farm Bill 2024
Specialty Crop Multi-State Program
Specialty Crop Block Grant Program – Farm Bill 2023
Specialty Crop Block Grant Program – Farm Bill
Specialty Crop Multi-State Program
Specialty Crop Block Grant Program - Farm Bill
Specialty Crop Block Grant Program – Farm Bill
Showing 10 of the 20 most recent listings (1 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 10.170: 1 indexed opportunities · 1 open on the recent slice.
- Start with the open listing USDA-AMS-TM-SCMP-G-26-0020 (closes October 16, 2026) before you compare distant categories. Open listing
- U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) administers 51 Assistance Listings in this extract. Agency catalog
- Nearest peer by listed ceiling: Native American CDFI Assistance Program (11.020). Compare program
SAM.gov ceilings are catalog maximums, not guaranteed awards; verify every deadline on Grants.gov before submitting.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure on PlainGrants is rendered directly from SAM.gov Assistance Listings data, no number is typed in by an editor. This grant program's figures are rendered directly from SAM.gov Assistance Listings data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data issue on this page.
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